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Photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugging his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe were strewn across newspapers this morning.
“The two prime ministers are reaffirming their ties amid growing worries of trade and regional stability,” reported Hindustan Times. The eight-hour rendezvous between the two spanned the spectrum from “robots to chopsticks”, as The Telegraph’s headline reads. Apart from bilateral talks, PM Modi visited a robot manufacturer, and dined with Abe.
The front pages also reported the alleged sexual assault on a 16-year-old French national by her host family’s father, who, according to The Times of India, “grabbed her hand and forced her to touch his private parts”.
Also making headlines is the ongoing tension between RBI governor Urjit Patel and the government. “Tensions between Patel-led RBI, govt coming to a head?” asks The Times of India.
The Indian Express also put on its front page a touching story about a “tea seller and judge”. An interview with Justice Bharat Chugh, once a railways magistrate, revealed how he was unnerved by the case of a poor young boy brought before him repeatedly for “illegally” selling tea in trains, and how he wrote a poem to salve his conscience.
The Telegraph led with US President Donald Trump’s rejection of PM Modi’s invitation to next year’s Republic Day event as chief guest. “Zeal on Donald Trump’s Republic Day trip misfires”, they write.
Jyoti Malhotra of ThePrint reported that The Times of India first published and then removed the story from their website. “Rumours persist that the world’s largest newspaper had withdrawn its own story because it was allegedly perceived as a snub to Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” she wroye.
Meanwhile, the cop who took her baby to work, Archana Singh, continues to be applauded and has even pushed the UP police to consider making creches. Uttar Pradesh DGP O.P. Singh “said the department would look into the modalities of setting up such a facility and then seek the due approvals”, reports The Times of India.
Meet ‘MotherCop’ Archana posted at kotwali jhansi for whom the duties of motherhood & the department go side by side !
She deserves a Salute !! pic.twitter.com/oWioMNAJub
— RAHUL SRIVASTAV (@upcoprahul) October 27, 2018
Incredible. Doesn't need any caption! @Uppolice 🇮🇳#Uppolice #PictureOfTheDay pic.twitter.com/Izpr2Zz9Rk
— Navniet Sekera (@navsekera) October 27, 2018
Prime Time
Was Shashi Tharoor’s remark on PM Narendra Modi insulting?
Times Now anchor Athar Khan discussed whether Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s jibe on Narendra Modi was wrong.
On Sunday, Tharoor quoted an unnamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member as calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a scorpion. In an interview with ThePrint and later speaking at an event in Bengaluru, Tharoor said, “There’s an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to a journalist, that, ‘Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling, you can’t remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a chappal either’.”
On the Times Now debate, BJP leader Aman Sinha said Tharoor’s statement had insulted Hindus.
“The analogy he has drawn, he has clearly insulted Hindus and PM Modi,” said Sinha, “No RSS worker has said so.”
CPI(M) leader Suneet Chopra added, “There is no reason to question Mr Tharoor.”
Mandir-masjid in the Supreme Court
Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami discussed the Ram mandir issue a day before a Supreme Court bench begins hearing pleas in the Ayodhya title suit Monday. Journalist Ashutosh said one must wait for the Supreme Court verdict before discussing the issue, while BJP leader Prem Shukla said the temple needed to be built soon.
News it’s just kinda cool to know
Spending long hours in space can have lasting effects on the brain, a study led by a team of neuroscientists from the University of Antwerp in Belgium and Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) of Germany has concluded. IANS reports.